LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has insisted that Paul Manafort’s federal trial has nothing to do with him, and his name has made only cameo appearances during the trial. Which is why courtroom observers were startled on Thursday [8-16-18] morning to hear the presiding judge, T.S. Ellis III, ask a ‘Mr. Trump’ if […]
8/16/2018
CELEBS: “The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is dead. She was a great woman, with a wonderful gift from God, her voice. She will be missed!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 10:36 am […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lashed out at the media Thursday [8-16-18] morning, identifying the ‘fake news’ as ‘the opposition party’ on the same day that hundreds of newspapers nationwide printed editorials critical of the president’s rhetoric towards the media…More than 350 news outlets published editorials Thursday denouncing the president’s threats against the press. […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is nothing that I would want more for our Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The fact is that the Press is FREE to write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. […]
8/16/2018
INTELLIGENCE/JAMES CLAPPER/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested Thursday [8-16-18] that President Donald Trump’s threat to revoke security clearances was being leveled against an ‘enemies list’ of those in the intelligence community who have been critical of his administration — not those who have committed any wrongdoing…The former intelligence chief […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Boston Globe, which was sold to the the Failing New York Times for 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS (plus 800 million dollars in losses & investment), or 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS, was then sold by the Times for 1 DOLLAR. Now the Globe is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press. PROVE IT!” […]
8/16/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There’s a new way of demonstrating loyalty to Donald Trump and his Republican Party: Claiming that the president could not only survive an impeachment effort, but that it would guarantee his victory in 2020. The idea gaining currency on the right is that Trump can be Bill Clinton, not Richard Nixon. It […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Omarosa Manigault Newman released a secret recording on Thursday [8-16-18] that she said backed her claim that President Trump’s daughter-in-law had offered her a $15,000-a-month contract in exchange for her silence about her time as a White House adviser. The audio, released during an interview on MSNBC, is the latest in the […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For the nation’s journalists, this has been a summer of unease and unrest. On live television, a caller to C-Span threatened ‘to shoot’ a pair of CNN journalists, Don Lemon and Brian Stelter, for their political commentary. In Tampa, Fla., rallygoers hurled vitriol at reporters covering a speech by President Trump, who […]
8/16/2018
CIA/NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA ADMIN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama, struck back at President Trump on Thursday [8-16-18] for revoking his security clearance, calling the president’s claims of ‘no collusion’ with Russia to influence the 2016 election ‘hogwash’ and arguing that the commander in chief was trying to silence […]
8/16/2018
INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For more than a year, law enforcement officials have repeatedly rebuffed President Trump’s efforts to use the power of his office to derail the Russia investigation. Stymied, Mr. Trump is lashing out in other ways against an investigation that he clearly hates or fears. The president said Thursday [8-16-18] that […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Greg D. Andres looked like any ordinary guest at the Westin hotel here, standing near the valet in flip-flops and a white Notre Dame boxing T-shirt, waiting for a Postmates delivery from Shake Shack. The moment would be unremarkable save for Mr. Andres’s role as the lead prosecutor for the special […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country….BUT WE ARE WINNING!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 7:50 am […]
8/16/2018
BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Economy is doing better than ever. Money is pouring into our cherished DOLLAR like rarely before, companies earnings are higher than ever, inflation is low & business optimism is higher than it has ever been. For the first time in many decades, we are protecting our workers!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations on Thursday [8-16-18] without reaching a verdict but with several questions, including how to define ‘reasonable doubt.’ The six men and six women considered the charges against […]
8/15/2018
ELECTIONS/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Steve Bannon is attempting a political resurrection, launching a 25-person pro-Trump rapid-response and polling operation that is framing the midterms as an up-or-down vote on the president’s impeachment. The former White House chief strategist has started Citizens for the American Republic, an outside political group that intends to advise surrogates, generate talking […]
8/15/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 300 U.S. newspapers have pledged to run editorials on Thursday [8-16-18] defending freedom of the press in response to President Donald Trump calling some media organizations enemies of the American people. The Boston Globe organized the editorial push, which was joined by the New York Times and a number of […]
8/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jurors are set to begin deliberating Thursday [8-16-28] morning whether to convict President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort of bank fraud and tax evasion. The high-stakes prosecution of Manafort by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team reached its conclusion with Wednesday’s closing arguments — with prosecutors accusing Manafort of […]
8/15/2018
CIA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [8-15-18] revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, who has become a harsh critic of the president, and appeared to be targeting others who have disagreed with the administration…In addition, Sanders said, the administration is evaluating clearances for former FBI Director James Comey, […]
8/15/2018
CYBERWAR/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took steps on Wednesday [8-15-18] to loosen limits on when the U.S. government can deploy cyber weapons against adversaries, reversing Obama-era guidelines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Trump signed an order reversing Presidential Policy Directive 20 that had mapped out an elaborate interagency process before the […]
8/15/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/JOBS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a rare correction Tuesday [8-14-18] night after falsely declaring that President Donald Trump has created three times as many jobs for African-American workers as former President Barack Obama did during his two terms in office…During the briefing, as she sought to defend the […]
8/15/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Health and Human Services is not taking responsibility for unaccompanied minors once they’re placed with sponsors, according to a Senate subcommittee report released Wednesday [8-15-18], an issue the subcommittee’s Republican chairman called an ‘incredibly difficult issue’…The report found that Health and Human Services had failed to establish rules to […]
8/15/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump announced Wednesday [8-15-18] he has revoked former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance, marking an unprecedented use of a president’s authority over the classification system to strike back at one of his prominent critics…Brennan is the first former national security official to see his security clearance revoked since […]
8/15/2018
DEFENSE/SENATE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. senators agreed on Wednesday [8-15-15] to debate and vote in the next few days on more than $850 billion in spending on defense, labor and healthcare programs, as the Trump administration announced its objections to some parts of the bill. The so-called ‘minibus’ appropriations bill includes nearly $675 billion in spending […]
8/15/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Rasmussen_Poll: Today’s @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 36% This day last year: 19% https://t.co/mazBCWoIMy @…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 2:52 pm […]
8/15/2018
COURTS/MILITARY/TRANSGENDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in Baltimore rejected the Trump administration’s request to shield information it employed when deciding to ban transgender people from the U.S. military. The decision on Tuesday [8-14-18] by U.S. Magistrate Judge A. David Copperthite came in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf more than one […]
8/15/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Chuck Schumer, I agree! https://t.co/KfoLkQU5Hv“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 1:34 pm […]
8/15/2018
CIA/NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump moved to penalize a sharp critic on Wednesday [8-15-18], revoking the security clearance of Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan for making what he called ‘a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations’ about his administration. The Republican president, in a statement read to reporters by White House […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced last year that he was leaving his cushy DC lobbying job to try to reclaim his old job, establishment Republicans cheered. Pawlenty, who spent eight years as the state’s governor last decade, was seen as the party’s only chance of winning the governor’s mansion […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The winners of Tuesday [8-14-18] night’s Republican primaries across the country are ‘the team we want’ heading into November’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump wrote online Wednesday morning, throwing his support behind several GOP winners…Tuesday’s primaries were especially busy in Wisconsin, where Leah Vukmir bested Kevin Nicholson in a tense GOP […]
8/15/2018
TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Country was built on Tariffs, and Tariffs are now leading us to great new Trade Deals – as opposed to the horrible and unfair Trade Deals that I inherited as your President. Other Countries should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of our great U.S.A. No […]
8/15/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy Birthday to the leader of the Democrat Party, Maxine Waters!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 9:57 am […]
8/15/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration announced new sanctions on Wednesday [8-15-18] against three organizations and an individual accused of facilitating illicit shipments to North Korea, keeping pressure on the government of Kim Jong-un amid ongoing negotiations over the dismantling of his nuclear program. The companies targeted by the Treasury Department are based in […]
8/15/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Being a billionaire president sometimes means confronting doubts that you understand the lives of regular people. That’s especially true for President Trump, who has built a political reputation for caring about working-class people despite decades of gold-plated living arrangements. On Wednesday [8-15-18], the question was put to Corey Lewandowski, the president’s […]
8/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The action (the Strzok firing) was a decisive step in the right direction in correcting the wrongs committed by what has been described as Comey’s skinny inner circle.’ Chris Swecker, former FBI Assistant Director.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 9:15am […]
8/15/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Rigged Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on as the ‘originators and founders’ of this scam continue to be fired and demoted for their corrupt and illegal activity. All credibility is gone from this terrible Hoax, and much more will be lost as it proceeds. No Collusion!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My friend and very early supporter Kris Kobach won the Republican Nomination for Governor of Kansas last night in a tough race against a very fine opponent. Kris will win in November and be a great Governor. He has my complete and total Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:51 am […]
8/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors urged jurors in the trial of Paul Manafort to focus on financial records and Manafort’s ‘lies’ — and to set aside personal feelings about a tainted star witness — as the government offered its closing argument on Wednesday [8-15-18]. Pushing back, lawyers for the former Trump campaign chairman argued that […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It is about time that Connecticut had a real and talented Governor. Bob Stefanowski is the person needed to do the job. Tough on crime, Bob is also a big cutter of Taxes. He will win in November and make a Great Governor, a major difference maker. Bob has my total […]
8/15/2018
INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When the White House announced on Wednesday [8-15-18] that President Trump was revoking or reviewing the security clearances of former officials who have emerged as some of his chief political antagonists, the list also included a little-known career Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr. Mr. Ohr has found himself at […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@PeteStauber won big last night in Minnesota. A big star in Hockey, he will be an even bigger star in politics. It all begins with a win in November. Pete has my complete and total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:31 am […]
8/15/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.’ Chuck Schumer in 2009, before he went left and haywire! @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:18 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Bryan Steil on a wonderful win last night. You will be replacing a great guy in Paul Ryan, and your win in November will make the entire State of Wisconsin very proud. You have my complete and total Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:14 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jeff Johnson of Minnesota had a big night in winning the Republican nomination for Governor against a very strong and well known opponent! Thanks for all of the support you showed me. You have my complete and total Endorsement. You will win in November!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:12 […]
8/15/2018
KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared to hammer President Donald Trump for making false statements and attacking allies, adding to a long list of criticisms he’s lobbed against the President online. Since last year, George Conway, a prominent attorney whom Trump considered nominating for solicitor general, has […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Scott Walker is very special and will have another great win in November. He has done a fantastic job as Governor of Wisconsin and will always have my full support and Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:07 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Bryan Steil on a wonderful win last night. Your will be replacing a great guy in Paul Ryan, and your win in November will make the entire State of Wisconsin very proud. You have my complete and total Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:02 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Leah Vukmir of Wisconsin on your great win last night. You beat a very tough and good competitor and will make a fantastic Senator after winning in November against someone who has done very little. You have my complete and total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 7:54 […]
8/15/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enters the U.S. legally.’ Chuck Schumer in 2009, before he went left and haywire! @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 7:44 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great Republican election results last night. So far we have the team we want. 8 for 9 in Special Elections. Red Wave!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 7:30 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A low-profile Republican congressman from northeast Ohio has gone where few in his party have dared this campaign season: He has bragged to his constituents that he has stood up to President Trump. In an election year when many Republicans have slavishly courted the president’s validation and endorsement, and others have […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/STEVE BANON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, is forming a group to try to sell voters on a midterm message that they should support Republicans to defend the Trump agenda and save the president from impeachment. The group, Citizens of the American Republic, is Mr. Bannon’s new vehicle […]
8/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The evidence against Paul Manafort is ‘overwhelming,’ a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments in his fraud trial on Wednesday, saying that he hid more than $16 million in income and fraudulently obtained $20 million in bank loans even though, as a trained lawyer, ‘Mr. Manafort knew the law.’ […]
8/15/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a remarkable attack on a political opponent, President Trump on Wednesday [8-15-18] revoked the security clearance of John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama, citing what he called Mr. Brennan’s ‘erratic’ behavior. The White House had threatened last month to strip Mr. Brennan and other Obama […]
8/15/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats across the Midwest are opting for a conventional cast of technocrats and long-time public officials in the party’s first response to Donald Trump’s 2016 victories — a rebuttal of sorts to the party’s lunge leftward in the run-up to 2020. It began with the governor’s race in Ohio in May, when […]
8/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort had ‘a huge dumpster of hidden money’ abroad, a prosecutor said on Wednesday [8-15-18], urging a jury to convict U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief on financial fraud charges based more on a paper trail of evidence than on the testimony of a former protege. […]
8/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers. Growing anxiety about what one might have once said. No sense of how long it will go on. Omarosa Manigault Newman’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers […]
8/14/2018
ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A fiery Donald Trump loyalist and a one-time Trump skeptic seized Republican nominations for governor in two states Tuesday [8-14-18], while Vermont Democrats picked the nation’s first transgender nominee for governor to represent them in November. The results came as voters across four states cast ballots and the 2018 midterm season […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We’ve reached the end. Paul Manafort’s defense team has rested, presenting no evidence and calling no witnesses to testify, including President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman himself. Wednesday [8-15-18] morning, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and Manafort’s defense lawyers will deliver their closing arguments — sure to be impassioned, detailed speeches […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman declared Tuesday [8-14-18] that she ‘will not be silenced’ by President Donald Trump, remaining defiant as her public feud with her former boss appeared to shift to a possible legal battle. In an interview with The Associated Press, Manigault Newman, who is promoting her […]
8/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos allegedly said the students who booed her May 2017 commencement speech at a historically black college didn’t have the ‘capacity to understand’ what she wants to accomplish, according to the tell-all book by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Manigault Newman describes DeVos’ comments […]
8/14/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer on Tuesday [8-14-18] conceded the closely contested Republican nomination for the state’s governor race to Kris Kobach, a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump. Kobach, who serves as the Kansas secretary of state, in the latest tally for the Aug. 7 primary election, had received 128,543 votes, […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s campaign said Tuesday [8-14-18] it has filed for arbitration, accusing Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former campaign aide and White House official, of breaching a 2016 nondisclosure agreement with the campaign. The move is the first legal action the Trump campaign has taken since Manigault Newman published a tell-all […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/GOP/MEDIA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A majority of Republicans said they believed the news media is ‘the enemy of the people’ rather than ‘an important part of democracy’ in a poll released Tuesday [8-14-18]. The poll from Quinnipiac University showed 51% of GOP respondents identified with President Donald Trump’s ‘enemy of the people’ line — a result […]
8/14/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The government has made only incremental improvements to its troubled efforts to care for thousands of migrant children detained entering the U.S. without their parents, perpetuating a problem the Trump administration has aggravated with its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration crackdown, a bipartisan Senate report said Wednesday [8-15-18]. The 52-page study said no […]
8/14/2018
ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTE BY MAIL: “Incumbent Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer conceded to his opponent, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in the state’s Republican primary Tuesday [8-14-18] night, one week after the extremely narrow vote. The latest vote tally put Kobach, whom President Trump had endorsed, just 345 votes over Colyer out of more than […]
8/14/2018
HHS/LAWSUIT/MEDICAID/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Advocacy groups on Tuesday [8-14-18] filed a lawsuit challenging the decision by President Donald Trump’s administration to allow Arkansas to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients in the state. The lawsuit, filed against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in federal court in Washington on behalf of three Medicaid recipients […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The defense rested its case Tuesday [8-14-18] morning in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort without calling any witnesses, setting the stage for closing arguments Wednesday [8-15-18] morning. Manafort spoke for the first time in court during the trial, saying he will not testify. Manafort told Judge T.S. […]
8/14/2018
MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Aides to President Donald Trump questioned him during the 2016 campaign about the existence of an audio tape in which he purportedly said the N-word, a racial epithet, during production of his reality TV show ‘The Apprentice.’ But officials’ divergent accounts, shifting stories, and an overall dearth of credibility have combined […]
8/14/2018
ENERGY/EPA/TRANSPORTATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Trump administration moves to freeze vehicle fuel efficiency standards, some regulatory officials have disputed the Transportation Department rationale that the plan would significantly cut traffic deaths, internal documents made public on Tuesday [8-14-18] showed. The Transportation Department under President Donald Trump has proposed rolling back Obama administration rules requiring tough […]
8/14/2018
GOP/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona condemned President Donald Trump’s attacks against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman as ‘unbecoming,’ just hours after Trump called the only African-American to have served in a senior role in the White House a ‘dog’…Trump’s reference on Tuesday [8-14-18] morning to Manigault Newman as […]
8/14/2018
ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Hope and Change in an Alabama Coal Mine’ https://t.co/IwLEO9ff9X“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 1:21 pm […]
8/14/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House national security adviser John Bolton will meet Russian officials in Geneva next week as a follow-up to the summit meeting that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had in Helsinki last month, the White House said. Bolton, as part of his trip, will also visit Israel and […]
8/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his administration are cranking up the pressure on special counsel Robert Mueller to end his Russia investigation after FBI agent Peter Strzok, who shared anti-Trump text messages, was booted from the bureau. The president has long called Mueller’s probe into whether the Russian government colluded […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lou Dobbs: ‘This cannot go forward…this Special Counsel with all of his conflicts, with his 17 Angry Democrats, without any evidence of collusion by the Trump Campaign and Russia. The Dems are the ones who should be investigated.’ Thank you Lou, so true!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 8:15 […]
8/14/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Strzok started the illegal Rigged Witch Hunt – why isn’t this so-called ‘probe’ ended immediately? Why aren’t these angry and conflicted Democrats instead looking at Crooked Hillary?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 8:10 am […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok is a fraud, as is the rigged investigation he started. There was no Collusion or Obstruction with Russia, and everybody, including the Democrats, know it. The only Collusion and Obstruction was by Crooked Hillary, the Democrats and the DNC!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 8:01 […]
8/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [8-14-18] called former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a ‘dog,’ and his campaign took legal action against her as the two former reality TV stars escalated their public feud. The intensifying spat came as Manigault Newman, a former contestant on Trump’s reality show ‘The […]
8/14/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’They were all in on it, clear Hillary Clinton and FRAME Donald Trump for things he didn’t do.’ Gregg Jarrett on @foxandfriends If we had a real Attorney General, this Witch Hunt would never have been started! Looking at the wrong people.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 7:06 am […]
8/14/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bruce Ohr of the ‘Justice’ Department (can you believe he is still there) is accused of helping disgraced Christopher Steele ‘find dirt on Trump.’ Ohr’s wife, Nelly, was in on the act big time – worked for Fusion GPS on Fake Dossier. @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:55 […]
8/14/2018
BRITAIN/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another terrorist attack in London…These animals are crazy and must be dealt with through toughness and strength!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:42 am […]
8/14/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:31 am […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump campaign has filed a formal complaint against Omarosa Manigault Newman saying she breached a confidentiality agreement signed in 2016, in response to her newly released book and promotional tour…The move comes as the reality TV star’s explosive tell-all memoir is released, detailing her time at the White House and […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lou Dobbs: ‘This cannot go forward…this Special Councel with all of his conflicts, with his 17 Angry Democrats, without any evidence of collusion by the Trump Campaign and Russia. The Dems are the ones who should be investigated.’ Thank you Lou, so true!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:21 […]
8/14/2018
FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….should be shut down. The Strzok firing shows that the fundamental underpinnings of the investigation were corrupt. It should be shut down by the courts or by honest prosecutors.’ Thank you Judicial Watch, I couldn’t have said it better myself!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:13 am […]
8/14/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….guy was corrupt and had anti-Trump animus. Strzok and others at the FBI should be criminally investigated for the way the conducted this investigation. Instead, Mueller is pretending nothing went wrong. He used Strzok, he used the Clinton DNC Dossier…the whole thing….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:07 am […]
8/14/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch: ‘The Strzok firing is as much about the Mueller operation as anything else. There would be no Mueller Special Councel to investigate so called collusion but for the machinations of Strzok & his colleagues at the top levels of the FBI. We know this…” –Donald Trump, […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump made race an overt issue in American politics. Now Democrats are ready to meet him head on. Some of the party’s top potential 2020 candidates are testing a barrage of early — and unusually explicit — race-related appeals in the run-up to the next presidential campaign. Sen. Kamala Harris […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorneys for Paul Manafort rested their case on Tuesday [8-14-18] without calling any witnesses, including the former Trump campaign chairman himself, who told the judge he did not want to testify in his own defense against bank and tax fraud charges. The defense attorneys’ decision means that the closely watched case […]
8/14/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE WARS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China’s leaders have sought to project confidence in the face of President Trump’s tariffs and trade threats. But as it becomes clear that a protracted trade war with the United States may be unavoidable, there are growing signs of unease inside the Communist political establishment. In recent days, officials from the […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s lawyers declined Tuesday [8-14-18] to call any witnesses to defend him against charges of bank and tax fraud. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, also told the judge that he did not want to testify, clearing the way for closing arguments from both sides and the start of […]
8/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump on Tuesday [8-14-18] added his former White House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, to the growing list of African-Americans he has publicly denigrated on Twitter, calling her ‘that dog’ and a ‘crazed, crying lowlife’ in the wake of her allegations against him of mental deterioration and racism. Even for […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “States such as Wisconsin helped drive Donald Trump’s surprising presidential win two years ago, and Tuesday’s [8-14-18] primaries there and in neighboring Minnesota could serve as a barometer of opposition strength headed into the November midterm elections. Voters were going to the polls in those states for party primaries, and Democrats […]
8/13/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “None of President Donald Trump’s senior White House officials are black. Only a handful of his senior staff are of Latino, Asian or Arab descent, according to a CNN review of 48 senior White House officials. Instead, the President is being advised by a senior White House staff that is […]
8/13/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Trump’s foreign policy is actually boosting America’s standing’ https://t.co/oC7Xs38uRo” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 13, 2018 7:11 pm […]
8/13/2018
DEFENSE/JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump thanked multiple members of Congress involved in passing the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act at a signing ceremony at Fort Drum, New York, Monday [8-13-18], with one major exception: the senator for whom the bill is named…Trump, who did not serve in the military himself, has […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors rested their case against Paul Manafort on Monday [8-13-18] afternoon after calling more than two dozen witnesses in their tax- and bank-fraud case against the former Trump campaign chairman. The final round of testimony from Treasury Department senior special agent Paula Liss lasted only five questions. […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors rested their case Monday [8-13-18] afternoon in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutor Greg Andres announced that the prosecution had finished witness presentation against Manafort after 10 days of testimony from 27 witnesses. The defense has not indicated if it will call any witnesses to the […]
8/13/2018
DEFENSE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was my great honor to sign our new Defense Bill into law and to pay tribute to the greatest soldiers in the history of the world: THE U.S. ARMY. The National Defense Authorization Act is the most significant investment in our Military and our warfighters in modern history! https://t.co/M6VI1c0Sgx“ –Donald Trump, […]
8/13/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secret tapes. Nondisclosure agreements. A lot of name calling. The revelations surrounding Omarosa Manigault Newman’s new memoir, and the ensuing fallout, are underscoring a level of dysfunction many now see as just part of life under President Donald Trump. On Monday [8-13-18], the former senior aide revealed a recording she’d made […]